Personal Devices · Recorded milestone
Digital watch
Recorded year1972
A wristwatch shows the time as glowing or black digits, with no hands to read, and soon adds alarms, stopwatches and calculators.
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- Integrated circuitRecorded · 1958enables
- MOSFETRecorded · 1959requires
- Light-emitting diodeRecorded · 1962enables
- Quartz watchRecorded · 1969enables
Led to
- SmartwatchRecorded · 2004enables
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.